Cheapest I've seen is around $35 USD from India with $5 shipping on eBay (English version of course). Problem is UK is a smaller market than US, so there's not as many bargain options early on in a release of a big title.

So I went to play last night and when I opened Origin and clicked on the game it started to update. After the update was finished I started to play and noticed that my fps were really low. Looked at Afterburner and it appears the Crossfire is now broken. I had two 7970's enabled and Afterburner was showing one near 90% and the other about 10-15%
Might have to try the latest Beta 7 drivers...
Anyone else notice this with Crossfire?

it looks awesome but after quake, unreal, HL, and whatever dozens of imitations, do we still need corridor shooters? why industrial plants with no workers just guards? why elevators, stairs, empty buildings of all kind (but always fucking DARK!) and then... aliens, zombies or nazis?????????????????????
why the same patrolling routines around maps, why always alarms? but never true real and maybe victorious massive counterattacks as you would expect from an trained force?
why always tv-screens everywhere with bullshit?

I wish Spec Ops The Line was as well made as this but with that more original scenary and story (not finished yet by me)

Don't know about Origin, try disabling it's overlay if you can, but low GPU usage can happen even on Nvidia. There's a guy with three 680s in SLI that was getting 50% or less GPU usage on each card. Then he tried using a tool called Timer Resolution, and his FPS jumped from 70 to 90.

Timer Resolution is a small app that uses about 2MB RAM and speeds up the latency between the CPU and GPU, which is especially useful in multi GPU setups. The CPU calculates the rendering data per frame then sends it to the GPU for it to be rendered. This app merely expedites the speed at which the CPU sends each set of frame data to the GPU.

I think Timer Resolution was mentioned in this or another thread. Whether it helps or not depends on your system setup. On my single GPU rig with i7 950 @ 3.2GHz, 7970 @ 1000/1450, and 6GB RAM @ CAS 7, it added maybe only 1-2 frames (yes, I now have the game), or roughly 47 FPS ave to 48 or 49. My desktop CPU to GPU latency was showing as 15.6ms, and in game at 10ms. The tool lowered the latency to a max of 5ms.

I've noticed a much greater difference by just studying the cvar list and coming up with some of my own performance tweaks. I was getting only 35 FPS average at first, and now roughly 45-50 average. I use max settings @ 1080p with FXAA and no VSync and motion blur. The only slight visual difference after the tweaks is distant grass isn't blowing in the wind, but why it would even do that in a domed city doesn't make much sense anyway, and you have to look close to even notice it.

Here's the tweaks I use. These can all be placed in an autoexec.cfg file you make (via renaming a text file) and place in your Crysis 3 directory. I got the cvar list here. TweakGuides.com will soon have a guide that will probably be more detailed though.

As for the game, meh, lackluster linear shooter no better than 7.5/10 IMO. Granted they brought in some interesting new Ceph, but they're still basing the more challenging combat scenarios on the God mode-like suit, they made Psycho a pudgy, dysfunctional whiner, the CELL are still clueless AI wise, the Ceph foot troops often rummage about near you without attacking due to apparent limited AI pathing, there's too much repetitious navigating through ruined buildings, and even the wide open areas have to be navigated pretty much on a linear path. They tried to make it epic and cinematic but it fails on so many levels. Even had they gone over the top the other direction with Psycho and used Jason Statham's likeness, voice, and innovative martial arts style, at least it would have been more interesting. I've played through this about 1.5 times, but it's Dead Space 3 that get's most of my attention lately, despite having played through it at least 7 times. My fave recent games are Max Payne 3 and Far Cry 3, but nothing I've played lately has more replay value than Dead Space 3.

Hammer, check this out. Even if Origin is causing some of that, you'll probably get better crossfire performance with the new 13.2b7 driver, which "Resolves an intermittent hang seen in Crossfire configurations with the new Crysis 3 patch"

I am going to download them tonight and see if it fixes the problem (as it states it should). Before they patched the game both HD 7970's were in the high 90% range.
I also was in discussion with Mindweaver and he is going to work on one of his cool "Config Utilities" for Crysis 3

AMD still shocking the hell out of us with these quick driver fixes. W1zzard, did they hire one of your relatives or something? LOL

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I am pleased as well at AMD's quick response to this issue
I wonder if this driver release will allow me to run three HD 7970's as well. Adding a third one after the game was released resulted in extremely poor performance

Keep a watch out for a TweakGuides.com guide on it too. Koroush is not the most brainy tech head out their, but his drive to improve the gaming experience, modesty, and ability to reach out to those in the know about cvar details makes him one of the best technical game guide authors out there.

Crysis 3 is finally here. As promised by Crytek, the game delivers superb visuals, as well as solid gameplay. I've prepared a YouTube Video showing Crysis 3 at maximum settings, with the exception of only 1x SMAA Anti-aliasing. You can see that the game is very system intensive. I'm now going to get down to the task of doing a Crysis 3 Tweak Guide, and although it may take a while to complete, this time there won't be any clearance delays."

Even the new 13.2 beta 7 drivers cause driver crashes for me in Crysis 3. I've tried every version from 13.2 beta 4 and up, and every one of them makes the drivers crash or gives a BSOD. I'm losing hope .

Keep a watch out for a TweakGuides.com guide on it too. Koroush is not the most brainy tech head out their, but his drive to improve the gaming experience, modesty, and ability to reach out to those in the know about cvar details makes him one of the best technical game guide authors out there.

Crysis 3 is finally here. As promised by Crytek, the game delivers superb visuals, as well as solid gameplay. I've prepared a YouTube Video showing Crysis 3 at maximum settings, with the exception of only 1x SMAA Anti-aliasing. You can see that the game is very system intensive. I'm now going to get down to the task of doing a Crysis 3 Tweak Guide, and although it may take a while to complete, this time there won't be any clearance delays."

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The worst time my life was when he shifted to Nvidia's (GeFroce) website. I knew that he will be nothing but a piece of sh** to them and that is what happened.

I am so f'in glad he left their website.

We still haven't seen Far Cry 3 guide by him because of those Nvidian fags.

Just finished my 2nd play through. Getting the hang of some parts better, but still getting hung up on lots of the terrain and route finding in those crazy tubes. I hit some optional objectives I missed the first run, but most of them are lackluster.

I know I keep harping about Dead Space 3, but it has loads of bang for buck. It's optional missions are some of the best and longest in any game I've played. One in particular is brutal to get through on the hardest difficulty setting without new game +.

After all you complained in your post, you prefer to hunt leaves? Seriously?

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No not. But map-wise and in a certain degree gameplay-wise.

- Now being more useful to this fine community, it is running well on my 670 at all High settings. "Very High" made it a bit sluggish. (def=1900x1000)
- Crashed a lot to desktop on second mission.
- Beautiful in open maps
- Is my mate always going to climb on roofs and me not?
- Game loads soo fast, unbelievable engine.